[mythtv-users] .28/fixes mythfrontend seg fault

[Paul Harrison]

On 02/04/17 15:25, Kevin Calvert wrote:
> Any idea on debugging this? I get a segmentation fault when launching
> myhtfrontend on the latest pull from the .28/fixes branch.
>
> lr at lr:~$ mythfrontend  --loglevel=debug > frontend.log
>
> Handling Segmentation fault
>
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
>
> Attached is the frontend.log. There's really no details in it, though.
>
> It's a weird one. Nothing changed, knowingly. I also tried trashing the
> partitions and starting over again only to wind up with the same results.
>
>
> On the other frontends in my house, everything is still working fine.
> Unfortunately this is the frontend for my main tv so it's the most
> noticeable. I have a script that does apt-get upgrade's and also does a
> git pull on mythtv, before actually launch mythfrontend, when the
> frontend restarts--and this happened after the latest restart.
>
>
> I haven't restarted the other frontends yet to kick off this same
> process, so I guess there's a possibility that something with the
> apt-get (I'm running a plain vanilla xubuntu 16.04.2 install on the
> frontends) upgrades and/or the mythtv pull is causing it not to play nice.
>
>
> Any help is obviously greatly appreciated.
>

If you can get a backtrace showing where the crash is happening then 
someone may be able to help you.

Since you appear to have core dump you may be able to create a BT from 
that using the instructions in 'Using Core Files' here:-
https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Debugging

Paul H.